So I go off and am a military wife for 4 months vs. finishing my MBA. We move again and then he has to leave for 2 months for more training. I have my Accounting degree, but can’t get a job in a different state than my degree with a military husband. Being the good student I am, I go back to school and get ANOTHER Bachelor’s degree, this time in Information Systems Management. Yes I am a nerd!! J While I am in school I get a job and start getting recognition for my abilities and my career starts taking off. Then, our precious daughter is born. I hold her and am amazed at her beauty. After maternity leave, I go back to work part-time and she is in daycare literally right next door to my office. I can go visit her while I work and it’s great! My husband gets stationed in Germany and we move. I am able to take time to settle us in and then go to work again, part-time. While in Germany, our son is born. I look at him and again, I’m amazed. Both our children were surprises (ask me more on that if you want). At this point our daughter is 2 and we have a newborn son. I decide to stay home for the last year we are in Germany and it was a fantastic experience. After my husband gets out of the Army, we move back to the states and I return to work full-time for 18 months. That was difficult!! I loved what I was doing, I was making significant changes at the company and was getting the recognition I wanted, but leaving my kids was hard. After 18 months my husband got a promotion within his company, but it required a move. We are accustomed to moving, so it was no big deal to us. The cost of living was much less where we moved to, so I decide to stay home for a few years until our son was in pre-school. Our daughter was in kindergarten, so my plan was just stay home a few years. However, when I went to look for work the .com bust had happened and I had been out of the IT world for almost 2 years. There were plenty of people with experience looking for work, so I was unable to get a job. Really, I probably never looked too hard because I enjoyed being there for my family. Then my husband needed to move again with his job. It was summer break for our daughter and our son would be starting kindergarten in the fall, so I knew I would wait till after the summer to go to work. Eventually I got a part-time job as an administrative assistant. I ended up working more as a database administrator then the assistant and it was a nice balance. I worked while the kids were in school and I enjoyed that, but to be completely honest, I hated it!! I was an assistant vs. the executive I wanted to be and it was killing my self-esteem. I ended up changing part-time jobs a several times and we moved again. I couldn’t NOT be there for my family and I never knew how to balance that with work. (And I am still figuring that out!) I was a real estate agent, a teacher, an insurance salesman, a volunteer and all kinds of stuff around the house. But all of this has brought me to my true calling: to help others become healthy and happy!
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